Tuesday, 13 December 2016

Michael Fallon must ‘Cease and Desist’

UK Defence Secretary Michael Fallon is turning a
dangerous course on Russia. Barely a month goes by where he doesn’t strike up a
threat, lambast Russian policy, or urge the incoming Trump Administration to act
ever more belligerently towards Russia. In fact, Fallon, once the very epitome
of a soulless Westminster suit, is now beginning to look more like a spurned
lover or infatuated stalker rather than Her Majesty’s dignified principal
Secretary for Defence.

Appearing increasingly agitated, this bizarre
Westminster prowler has in the space of only a few months indulged in some
astonishing outbursts. This December, he blurted that the UK must not treat
Russia as an ‘equal’.In November, he
pleaded with America to ‘stand up to Russia’ and has since issued oversized
overzealous threats to Donald Trump himself. Fallon has seized upon any media
opportunity to repeatedly showcase NATO as the only military force capable of
pursuing Russian military might.

Is Fallon suffering delusions of grandeur?

You might have been mistaken for thinking that Fallon
was representing one of the world’s super powers rather than an ailing imperial
power suffering prolonged economic hardship and mismanagement. The UK is suffering
a striking, aging discontent public with an apparent funding black hole when
it comes to basic public services. Yet this hasn’t deterred Fallon. He’s happy
to force a confrontation with Russia on credit, on our behalf.

To make matters even worse the good old British media
have shrink-wrapped Fallon’s frenzied sound bursts as ‘common sense pearls of
wisdom’.They’ve assisted in jousting
the ‘wild Russian behemoth’ rather than scrutinising his crazed outbursts and holding
him to account, as perhaps they should.

Is Fallon acting in the interests of the people of
the UK, in the interests of peace and stability or is he sabre rattling on
behalf of NATO and the by-gone old-world order?

Fallon has a history of blindly supporting military
aggression overseas and represents the very worst of British foreign policy.
Simply, he must ‘cease and desist’ from his swivel eyed and obsessive attacks on the more
serious world power of Russia if we are to enter 2017 with some hope for peace and
stability in the world.